Two teens suspected of tossing bottles at cars

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Two teenage boys from Sebastopol have been identified as the suspects who tossed water bottles at passing motorists in Sonoma County, authorities said Tuesday.

The boys, ages 15 and 16, allegedly threw bottles at as many as 10 moving cars in February — including at least one school bus with no children aboard — shattering windows and alarming motorists, authorities said.

The boys, whose names were withheld because of their ages, were identified with the help of surveillance camera footage, cell phone and school records, said Officer Jonathan Sloat of the California Highway Patrol in Santa Rosa.

The 16-year-old got his driver’s license the month before the attacks started, the CHP said.

After investigators released a picture of a white Toyota Tacoma from which the bottles were thrown — a vehicle distinctive with black, after-market, off-road rims — the registered owner came forward and the attacks stopped, Sloat said.

The boys could face charges of assault with a deadly weapon likely to cause great bodily injury and throwing a substance at a moving vehicle, Sloat said.